Hugh Herr

Hugh Herr (M ‘08) received the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, in 1998. He is currently an Associate Professor within the Program of Media Arts and Sciences at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Contributions

Ultrasound is a cost-effective, readily available, and non-ionizing modality for musculoskeletal imaging. Though some research groups have pursued methods that involve submerging the transducer and imaged body segment into a water bath, many limitations remain in regards to acquiring an unloaded volumetric image of an entire human limb in a fast, safe, and adequately accurate manner.

Biomechanical tissue properties have been hypothesized to play a critical role in the quantification of prosthetic socket production for individuals with limb amputation. In this investigation, a novel indenter platform is presented and its performance evaluated for the purposes of residual-limb tissue characterization.